This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life.
- Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespeare's plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time.
- Focuses on the characters, situations and stories in Shakespeare which are still familiar today.
- Shows how Shakespeare's plays illustrate some of life's most familiar stories - love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge
- Makes Shakespeare’s plays accessible to the widest possible audience.
Acknowledgements.
Conventions.
List Of Illustrations.
1. Private Life: Shakespeare And Selfhood:.
The Divided Self.
Comedy Of Errors; As You Like It.
Naming The Self.
Troilus And Cressida; Romeo And Juliet; Taming Of The Shrew.
The Self And Language.
Measure For Measure; Troilus And Cressida.
The National Self.
Othello; King Lear.
The Self At Play.
Love’s Labour’s Lost; Taming Of The Shrew.
2. Marital Life: Shakespeare And Romance:.
Love And Hazard.
Merchant Of Venice.
Love And Friendship.
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